Cervical Cancer Statistics- Cervical cancer used to be the leading cause of cancer death for women in the United States. However, in the past 40 years, the number of cases of cervical cancer and the number of deaths from cervical cancer have decreased significantly. This decline largely is the result of many women getting regular Pap tests, which can find cervical precancer before it turns into cancer
Understanding The Basics Earlier this week I read a report concerning the public’s general confusion about cervical cancer — its causes, detection and treatment. The sentence that I just can’t get out of my mind is a question asked by a teenage boy. “Can I get Cervical Cancer?” The kid was serious and his attitude [...]
Part of public health policy is determining the best use of funds – to save or protect the most lives with the fewest resources. With all the demands on health care from heart disease, diabetes, AIDS, and other types of cancer, the economics for Gardasil don’t add up.
The issues discussed in the 1987 filmed interview of Merck’s chief vaccine researcher, Dr Maurice Hilleman, conducted by Dr. Edward Shorter, Professor of the History of Medicine and Professor of Psychiatry, University of Toronto raise serious doubts about the propaganda the public has been fed about the safety of Merck vaccines. Vaccines that have been promoted as “safe and effective” miraculous cures have been infecting (possibly) millions of people with cancer, leukemia, and AIDS.
Sustainable Health Care For Women For regular readers of ‘Inconvenient Woman’, this will seem like an oft repeated refrain, but there are better, safer, more sustainable ways to prevent and treat cervical cancer both at home and in developing countries. Safety, and ethical issues aside, , many countries (in my opinion the Us is one [...]
Garasil Is NOT The Answer Merck’s continued looting of state and federal public health budgets for a dangerous and unnecessary vaccine is unsustainable and has to stop. There are better, safer, more sustainable ways to prevent and treat cervical cancer both at home and in developing countries. Safety, and ethical issues aside, as a country, [...]
The Pap test is recommended for all women, and can be done in a doctor’s office or clinic. During the Pap test, the doctor will use a plastic or metal instrument, called a speculum, to widen your vagina. This helps the doctor examine the vagina and the cervix, and collect a few cells and mucus from the cervix and the area around it. The cells are then placed on a slide or in a bottle of liquid and sent to a laboratory. The laboratory will check to be sure that the cells are normal.
Almost all cervical cancers are caused by human papillomavirus (HPV), a common virus that can be passed from one person to another during sex. There are many types of HPV. Some HPV types can cause changes on a woman’s cervix that can lead to cervical cancer over time, while other types can cause genital warts.
Merck’s “One Less” Marketing team is like a well oiled machine. It stays on message no mater what. A key message Merck likes to repete when touting Gardasil is that the vaccine prevents the two strains of HPV that account for about 70 percent of cervical cancers. That’s not the same as saying Gardasil is proven to prevent 70 percent of cervical cancer cases, it just sounds like that in the commercial. Stand in front of the mirror, look sincerly concerned and say it fast…See what I mean, Gosh I’m almost convinced thatGardasil is proven to prevent 70 percent of cervical cancer case…Not!
More black and Hispanic women get cervical cancer and are diagnosed at later stages of the disease than women of other races or ethnicities, possibly because of decreased access to Pap testing or follow-up treatment.
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